Show us your Japanese Natural Whetstones
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Definitely a finisher. Shave was great, 2 pass, zero alum sting.
Love these bricks you guys have been posting. Here’s my one and only brick.
You pulled out the heavy guns hey? Gorgeous.
Steve56
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Here are a couple. First one is 222 x 80 x 50mm, a ‘24 cut’. Second is 205 x 75 x 60mm.
Shouhonyama Iromono 207 x 78 x 35mm 1.36 kg 8 x 3 x 1.37 in. 3 lb. 0 oz
This one is hard to capture the colors and three dimensional look in a pic.
This one is hard to capture the colors and three dimensional look in a pic.
How do y'all finish your tomo nagura?
I had been finishing to 220, and even with the utmost care they would reliably scratch the blazes out of any stone I used them on.
I tried relapping to 600 today and they are much less prone to scratching, and apparently no slower in use.
I had been finishing to 220, and even with the utmost care they would reliably scratch the blazes out of any stone I used them on.
I tried relapping to 600 today and they are much less prone to scratching, and apparently no slower in use.
Worn our 400 atoma, them I smooth it out on the base stone some. Usually if your tomo is scratching you are using too much pressure or it is a bad tomo to base stone match.
After i have rounded off the edges i don’t do anything to them. This is usually done with an atoma 400.
You need to find a good match. A piece cut from the base stone might not be the best match. So, a similar type of stone with slightly different properties. Softer naguras are often easier to use, but i do not get the same refinement with the ones i have compared to harder naguras, even if they are just as fine.
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Large Tomonagura work best when their rubbing surface is not flat. Smaller tomo you can get away with it being flat. Cutting in a gullet with a hack saw and chamfering the edges when you do helps to prevent suction and loose clumps of grit breaking off in your (its) slurry.
It will save you hack saw blade if you cut the tomo when it is dry, otherwise the tomo/jnat will dull or de-sharpen the hack saw blade. I hold my tomo in a bench vice when sawing the gullet to prevent sawing my fingers.
Alx
It will save you hack saw blade if you cut the tomo when it is dry, otherwise the tomo/jnat will dull or de-sharpen the hack saw blade. I hold my tomo in a bench vice when sawing the gullet to prevent sawing my fingers.
Alx
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Well, I liked the color so I bid. Slurry is nice and yellow. It absorbs water quicker than a very hard stone and it kicks slurry fast as well with a 1200 Atoma but it doesnt feel like a soft stone under the blade or when you tap on it with a razor. High pitch sound not dull. Test razor with DN slurry looked very nice under high magnification. Tried an asagi tomo and a kiita tomo down to dirty water slurry with the Colling razor. Impressed. Sharp and very comfortable.
You just let me know when you get bored of that one, eh David…
#OkudoSuita #TooGoodForRazors
(Is it Okudo? Looks like it to me anyway.)
I'm sure a lot of you will have already seen this, but I just found it for the first time and found it interesting, so thought I'd share.
Yessir. Number 296 from Alex. It’s too much stone for you though.
Yessir. Number 296 from Alex. It’s too much stone for you though.
Oh no! No.296 you say?! I assume you know about the dreaded 'Rule of 37'...?
Any of Alex's stones where the number is exactly divisible by 37, are always complete duds. Utterly useless. Couldn't sharpen a pencil on 'em. No one knows why, just the way it is.
If you pop it in the post to me, that'll free up space for about 200-300 NOS Pike Toothpick Hones to add to your collection.
Ok... time to fess up. Which of you got brick envy and bought this 16.8kg jnat?
Some stones are large enough to hone comfortably on the side. At a roomy 600 X 170 X 120, this one allows you to hone extremely comfortably on the end.
Turning this tomo that is a chunk of some suita into a rough ball shape. Don't use it too much and thought it would be cool to have at the desk to fidget with.
I wish we were neighbors.
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